Ian Davies

Senior Digital Transformation Manager at Birchman Group

United Kingdom

About

I lead SAP and non-SAP programmes that transform our clients' operations. Working as a trusted partner with a broad range of multinational businesses, I am responsible for leading digital and organisational change programmes, such as complex SAP implementations, with the end goal of enabling business development or providing large scale improvements in how our client's business operates. I have 20+ years’ experience, specialising in leading cross-functional business and technical teams to deliver projects across the Enterprise. Key skills include shaping propositions in the pre-sales cycle and providing advisory services, through to delivering a programme of work, embedding the change within the business and liaising as account manager on an on-going basis. My leadership approach is to: • Partner with key stakeholders to develop and establish a clear project vision and scope • Lead with an Agile mindset, tailoring ways of working to each situation and empowering the team to self-organise • Execute projects to meet deadlines, budgets and business objectives, whilst managing risk. Key expertise: • SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA Cloud - Public Edition Implementation with SAP Activate • Advisory Skills - Partner Value Academy • PMP Certified • SAP Deployments & Upgrades • IT Infrastructure Migrations • International and Enterprise-wide ERP Implementations

Experience

  • The Birchman Group (Full-time · 4 yrs 7 mos)
    • Senior Digital Transformation Manager
      Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • SAP Programme Manager
      Jan 2022 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • General Mills (18 yrs 5 mos)
    • IT PM/Delivery Lead - International Data and Analytics Reporting (Data Lake / Tableau)
      Jul 2021 - Jan 2022 · 7 mos

    • IT Project Manager - International Statutory Accounting SaaS rollout (Workiva Wdesk)
      Jan 2021 - Sep 2021 · 9 mos

    • IT Project Manager - Industrial Network Infrastructure Migration (x3 Factories and Data Center)
      Jan 2019 - May 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Engineer at Celestica
    1999 - 2003 · 4 yrs